Their children also use the sweet phrase as a term of endearment.
“‘I love you the goodest,’ Jimmy explained.
“Now all our children do the same thingILYTG on the phone or in emails, he continued.
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They generally just put the initials.
And sometimes they change the initials and make you guess what they’re talking about.”
The heirloom acronym is even inscribed on a compact he gave his future bride for Christmas in 1945.
The silver compact is currently on display at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta.
They shared four children, 11 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.
“We have grown closer to each other.
Weve learned from each other.
And we have learned to accommodate each others idiosyncrasies,” he shared.
“And weve learned how to give each other plenty of space.
We can each do our own thing and the other one absent.”
